In the Gospels, when Jesus speaks of good, almost invariably, what he's talking about is that which somehow reflects God.

That to Jesus, all goodness, that's what he's saying here to the rich young ruler, who is good except God alone.

So all goodness, all essence of goodness, any time he sees it, even in a person that does not know him

and does not believe in him, when that person does someone good, they are doing good out of the

fact that they have been created in the image of God. Is that fair?

Yeah. Go with me to go with me to Luke two, to perhaps the most familiar story in all of New Testament scripture to people because it is going to be

the birth narrative. We're going to go to the point in the narrative where the baby has been born.

The angels have already proclaimed the Messiah's birth to the shepherds. They have made haste

to go and see this one that has been

born in Bethlehem that has been laid in a manger and wrapped in swaddling clothes, and they've

just been amazed by it. I want you to pick up with me when it says a certain thing about Mary.

So I want you to pick up in verse 15. When the angels had left them, this is the

shepherds, and returned to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, let's go straight to

Bethlehem and see what's happened, which the Lord has made known to us. They hurried off, and they

found both Mary and Joseph and the baby who was lying in the manger. After seeing them, they

reported the message they

were told about this child and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherd said to them.

But Mary, verse 19, but Mary was treasuring up all of these things in her heart and meditating on

them. She pondered them as the way one of the translation says it.

Treasure them by.

It's a word, the basic lexical form of the word would be soon to reo,

and it is a word that means to preserve, but it is a word that means that

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